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Help Needed: Simple Field Shelter for Ponies

  • 20-11-2012 11:42am
    #1
    KingOfBreifne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Hi, guys.

    We rescued two ponies with the help of the ISPCA over this past summer -- our first ever experience with equine. Their lives up until the ISPCA took possession of them was not great, to say the least.

    They're doing fine now, but we'd really like to give them a field shelter to duck in out of the winter rains and gales (we're on the Connemara coast).

    We've been trying to find a suitable (and affordable) solution for weeks now. We'd like something big enough to comfortably shelter these two and perhaps one more future pony of Connemara size. Something at least 20x10 would be required, I think. I've tried to find storage containers in our budget, but I can't find one close enough to keep transport costs down enough to fit in our budget.

    We'd also need some room in a separate area to store hay. It needs to be built in such a way that it can be taken down and moved with us when we leave this house as we're only renting at the moment.

    Building materials are just so expensive right now. I'm hoping there is someone out there who has a container they're not using that they would sell to us at a good price (two 20-foot containers would be perfect), or someone out there who has the skills necessary to help me build a simple shelter for an affordable cost. As we're just getting into ponies, we don't have a huge budget for all this just yet. We're just trying to do the best we can to do our small part in helping the very sad situation of equine neglect in this country.

    Any fellow horse lovers out there that are willing to help us help these beautiful girls in having a better life? We have only about 1200-1300 Euro to spend on this right now ... and if we could somehow pull it off for less than that top-end, that would make us (and these mares) even happier!

    Thanks in advance!

    ~ ryan


Comments

  • #2
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Galway County > Animal and Pet Issues

    You'll get better replies here, OP.


  • #3
    ISDW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭ISDW


    Theres also an Equestrian forum where you may get some help http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=996

    Best of luck


  • #4
    KingOfBreifne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭KingOfBreifne


    ISDW wrote: »
    Theres also an Equestrian forum where you may get some help http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=996

    Best of luck

    Thanks for the suggestion!


  • #5
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    No help from me except to say you're doing a really fine thing by giving them a second chance. Good for you.

    :o


  • #6
    LisaO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭LisaO


    I know of someone who built a timber field shelter out of slobs - the bits that are sliced off the outside of the trees at the sawmill - basically like long planks which are flat on one side but rounded on the other & sometimes still have the bark on them. Cheap to buy if you have a sawmill near you and you don't mind the "rustic" appearance of them :)


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